Ja Rule, Rockwilder and Sevyn Streeter were among the artists who attended New York radio station Hot 97’s “Hip Hop Has Heart 1st Annual Lift ‘Em Up Holiday Dinner” at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Queens, New York Thursday (December 12).
“It was a great experience,” Ja Rule said during an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. “It’s always a good feeling to come out and lend a helping hand to the community.”
Also billed as “A Night Of Service & Inspiration,” the event featured Hot 97 donating toys and food to people in need.
Hot 97 radio personalities such as Angie Martinez and Peter Rosenberg attended the function, as did New York City Council members Leroy Comrie, Donovan Richards and Ruben Willis.
Ja Rule said at the dinner that that Run-DMC’s “Christmas In Hollis” is the song he has to have on his holiday playlist, while Rosenberg named other selections.
“I told people last year my sleeper holiday album that I really enjoyed was the Justin Bieber Christmas album,” Rosenberg said. “There’s two or three original songs I really, really liked. Obviously, Jackson 5 ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,’ classic. And for a slept-on holiday treat, totally random and not Hip Hop, the Dixie Chicks featuring Rosie O’Donnell, they did this awesome family Christmas song [‘Merry Christmas From the Family’] that I love. But, I haven’t heard it in a long time.”
The Hot 97 staff said that the “Lift ‘Em Up” event has special significance for them.
“Every year we do tons of concerts, tons of events,” said Jessica Toribio, secretary for the Hip Hop Has Heart Foundation. “But to actually put together an annual event like ‘Lift ‘Em Up’ is amazing.”
Added Rosenberg: “I’m always surprised and moved by the amount of wonderful things the radio station does, more so than any other station I’ve ever been at before. It makes me think about what you take for granted and how easy and wonderful of a life I’ve been blessed to have by the radio station and by Hip Hop in general. I just think about being fortunate and what more can I do throughout the rest of the year.”
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Ja Rule has always been good to the community and a fixture on the NY scene, its sad how suburban America turned on him for 50 Cent but then they turned on 50 Cent for LiL Wayne so karma is a bitch.
lol Karma can eat his 200 million dollar dickl
Why are 50 fans obsessed with his cock?
Ja likes ALOT of cock! hahahahahahahaahahaha
Has he addressed the gay rumors about him leaving his wife for his jail boyfriend? Has DX even ran that story yet?
Yes he did address them and I believe he posted a photo on instagram kissing his wife.
That shit was made up by one of those weak ass gossip websites!
Hif wife already looks like a man he got the best of both worlds
Pretty sure there was records of him going to his boyfriends house as soon as he got out.
His wife looks like a man and also has a set of balls!
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Ja is about to have a big comeback I think. Checkout thegrandreport, they got some good hip hop and viral videos on there
No thanks
A comeback lol I heard he was doing a duet with Frank Ocean! ROFL
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Beyonce article on a HipHop website? Can we get some Keisha Cole and Mary J too or are they not HipHop like Beyonce is?
Its time for a change for years the Ja rule comments were flooding this site but that has changed now. At one point it was funny but now it got old and people automatically just disregard comments about ja rule. It has gotten to the point where its so repetitive that even hhdx moderators delete the comment. THE JA RULE ARMY IS FINISHED JA RULE HAS BEEN IRRELEVENT. Its time for a new beggining its time for the GUCCI MANE ARMY TO RISE AND ASSEMBLE. From now on i expect comments to be about BIG GUWOP GUCCI MANE. Because GUCCI MANE is the realest nigga and he deserves respect for being the ONLY nigga saving gangster rap and being a real nigga in the rap game. GUCCI MANE ARMY ASSEMBLE!!!!!!
Drake is a homosexual
NO! WE WILL NEVER GO AWAY!
HAHAHAHAAH The realest nigga with a fuckin’ ice-cream cone tattooed on his ugly mug, and lookin’ at getting r@ped in jail! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH you fuckin’ idiot! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ja Rule left his wife to be with his jailhouse boyfriend, look it up
1 on 1 lets go punk ass nigga where you from clown?
Itttsssss Mudraaaaa ahaha
DONT FUCK WITH JA NIGGAZ
You meant “Murdaaaaa” right you fuckin’ dumb-ass!
Pretty sure he was making a joke about Murder Inc misspelling their own name in a song years ago. Idiot. Also Bluntz I am from TN & fuck your mother.
Ja rule left his wife for a man
Mrs. Ja Rule, Aisha Atkins, as saying of her husband:
He wrote all them love songs and still dont know how to treat a b**ch. We spent ten-plus years building our marriage but it only took him two to decide hed rather suck a d*** than be with his wife.”
nigga you belive anything you read yeah u dumb mofucka !!!
That story is fake from a parody website !!
nigga acually took the time to write that whole thing its a 50 cent dickrider ahahaa
he didnt make it up it was going around the internet on the female gossip sites that make up trash
Comeback ja rule 2014 niggaaa !!!
big gucci runs the rap game now
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